ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,362, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for optical character recognition (OCR)-free information extraction from image-based documents" was invented by Atul Kumar (Bangalore, India), Sailendu Kumar Patra (Bangalore, India) and Saurabh Jha (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for information extraction from an image-based asset includes: generating, by an encoder, at least one image patch from the asset; generating, by the encoder, an input embedding for the at least one image patch; generating, by the encoder, an output embedding based on the input embedding; ...